By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennisnow | Wednesday, July 2, 2025
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Wimbledon– grass game remains a slide slope to Coco gafff.
Firm Dayana yastmska Roland Garros Gauff 7-6 (3), 6-1 by sending world No.2 colliding by its opening Wimbledon on Tuesday.
It is the second round of the first round of Guff in the championship in the last three years and lowered it in tears in the closet room and its post -match press conference ..
Two years ago, gafff lost to former Australian Open Champion Sofa In its opening Wimbledon.
Grand Slam’s double champion made unbearable stories with Tuesday’s exit. Gauff is the first royal Roland Garros Champion Francesca Schiavone In 2010 to lose in Wimbledon’s first round. Gauff joined Schiavone and Justine Henitwho fell to Eleni Daniilidou in Wimbledon 2005, as only the third French title holder Open that fell in the first round of Wimbledon.
So what is the issue and how can Gauff improve, who still won’t exceed Wimbledon’s round of 16, improve her grassy game?
Of course, Guff’s extreme western control makes it difficult for him to dig low balls on the lawn. This was evident against Yastmska hit by the plains, which supported 10 more winners in the match and was more affirmative playing tennis with first strike.
Afterwards, Gauff showed two main areas of improvement it should make in the bar:
1. The sharper service
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Gauff, who effectively served in Roland Garros Run, served only 45 percent, earned only 44 percent of the second service points and hit only 6 winners at a 79-minute loss to Yastremska.
The success of the grass begins with her service, Gauff said, because when she is lowering she can play on the front leg and be less reactive.
“Definitely serving better. I want to say, when I can serve well, and some games I made is definitely an added threat. I think I didn’t serve well,” Guff said. “Yes, I mean, no doubt I have to be able to oppose it and also be as aggressive as it ever.”
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The challenge for Gauff, which has reached Roland Garros’s final in two of the last four years, is her clay success limits her transition time in the bar. This makes her modification of her style of play for harsh grass because she is playing longer in clay. Another challenge is under pressure, Gauff tends to rely on her feet and protective skills, which works well in clay but is not a winning grass formula.
“I think it’s just by changing my play style a little, which is hard,” because it’s like to approach Clay and I play this a way for the clay season no matter how long it is, six to eight weeks, or I don’t know, “said Guff.”
Time is on the 21-year-old gafff and she has shown the ability to solve problems in the difficult court and clay. The question is: Can Gauff play a more affirmative style in the bar without modifying its extreme premature control?
Another option for Gauff, who has been a strong player in the doubles, is to try to impose her net skills more often. In yesterday’s loss, Guff won three of the five Net trips.
By moving forward, Gauff may want to try to apply her net game to the bar. However, this also seeks to play closer to the initial base, which can be a challenge for gafff by giving it wider back on the preface side.
An uncontrolled gafff shed tears at the end of her oppressor after the match, but said she would try to use her rest time to reassess the open US.
“I feel like I could have been a little better in those difficult moments of the connector, especially after Roland Garros, where I felt like I was learning a lot in those connectors,” Guff said. “Yes, I mean, I definitely won’t stop much for that because I want to do well in us open.
“Maybe losing here in the first round is not the worst thing in the world because I have time to restore. Yes, definitely suck.”